Price starts at $649 for 64GB of storage, only $50 less than the equally boring iPhone 8. But today others are also adopting Google's pure Android strategy like Essential, Lenovo or Nokia and are sometimes even quicker than Google to update their device. A failure that doesn't bode well for the Pixel 2 smartphones which already look outdated before it even ships. To bolster its hardware division, Google announced last month the purchase for $1.1 billion in cash of half HTC's research and development group - about 2,000 people - which was responsible for the development of the Pixel smartphones. I've added a link below to Google's hardware event which starts today at 9AM, San Francisco time (PT).

Source: Forbes October 04, 2017 09:17 UTC